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Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 18, 2017

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PowerVC capability to restore previous backup to later version

PowerVC has the capability of restoring from backup. This request is that we be able to restore from a previous backup in the event that we upgrade or reinstall product.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Jan 27, 2021

    This should work with PowerVC 1.4.4 onwards. Thanks for your feedback

  • Guest
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    |     May 9, 2017

    PowerVC has a limitation that only allows you to restore a backup if the backup is the same as the current PowerVC version. An example would be, trying to restore a backup for PowerVC 1.3.1 on a VM running PowerVC 1.3.2. This is not possible. I had an incident when i upgraded and had issues, so I tried to restore the backup but before I could do that I needed to put the VM back to the version that the backup was at restore backup and then upgrade. I propose an enhancement that will restore no matter what level PowerVC is at.

  • Guest
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    |     Apr 29, 2017

    Thanks for the comment. We'd like to understand this a bit more, could you help describe the scenario a bit further? As you stated, PowerVC allows you to create backups and then you can restore from any of those backups using the powervc-restore command. Can you please clarify what is needed beyond this capability? Thanks in advance!

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